Tinkerning with computers & other fun stuff!
The main hard drive seems to be flaky in one of my XCP servers. I decided to use Clonezilla to clone sda to another drive to see if it is in fact the hard drive. After cloning over the drive I found that my LVM storage group VG_XenStorage-xxx was not mounting, and XenCenter was giving [...]
Once you create VLAN’s on your XCP server you will find that the physical interface you used to be able to hit by an IP address no longer responds. This is because you have trunked the interface into multiple VLAN’s and need to assign IP’s to the VLAN interfaces rather than the physical interface.
One very useful feature of XCP is the ability to setup VLAN networks for your virtual machines to use. This gives an administrator fine grained control on what network a machine belongs on. This will work as long as the network interface that is assigned to your VM’s is plugged into a trunked port on [...]
If you initially install XCP using only one disk you can still add more drives later if you find you need more room. XCP uses LVM storage to manage the partitions created for new Virtual Machines which allows you to extend the default volume group at your leisure among other things.
XCP supports local ISO storage on an internal hard drive. It is not available as an option in the xsconsole – Disk and Storage Repositories menu. However you can set one up with a little bit of command line magic.
If you do a clean install of XCP 1.0 or XCP 1.1 Beta you will find that after 30 days and a reboot none of your virtual machines will boot. If you are using XenCenter to manage your server you will see a notification that your license has expired. This is a bug in the [...]
It seems that the Linux templates in XCP 1.0 & 1.1 are all bugged and will not boot to a CD/DVD drive upon first boot of the virtual machine. This makes it very difficult to start up your installation media. In order to work around this you can either use the “Other Installation Media” template [...]